Search - House of Cards Trilogy: The Original UK Series Remastered [Blu-ray] on Blu-ray

Adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice Bleak House) House of Cards is a spell-binding dissection of naked ambition greed and rampant hypocrisy in the corridors of power. The series documents in thrill... more &raquoing detail the rise of Tory Chief Whip Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson Dark City Becoming Jane) a man with unwavering contempt for those with "no background no bottom." With the downfall of Margaret Thatcher a bitter internecine power struggle ensues within the Conservative Party. Urquhart schemes more devilishly than Iago to depose Thatcher's colorless John Major-style successor. And even Machiavelli would baulk at Urquhart's methods. Any and every act-including murder-is legitimate and the ends very much justify the means&laquo less